Building, Manhattan

PEAR TREE PLACE

203 East 13th Street

East Village, Manhattan

Year built

1851

Stories

4

Building type

High Rise

Beyond it, the terraces wait: an irrigated and landscaped rooftop garden anchored by an outdoor working wood-burning fireplace, a retractable awning, and four-way exposures crowned by Empire State Building views with a clapboard garden cottage that must be seen to be appreciated, a storybook detail found nowhere else in the city. The building itself offers an elevator and intercom system, easing the everyday. Now known as Pear Tree Place, the building holds downtown lore dating back to 1865 home to the original Kiehl's, and built upon the very ground where Peter Stuyvesant's pear tree flourished for over two centuries.